Listen Here: Women Writing in Appalachia Book

	Chronology of Works
	Acknowledgements
	About the Editors
	Introduction	1
	The Easter Frock, from Come Go Home With Me	8
	from Bastard Out of Carolina	12
	from Five Minutes in Heaven	19
	Ontological	24
	Long Story	25
	Sonnet for Her Labor	27
	A Place with Promise	28
	from This Day and Time	32
	from Hunter's Horn	38
	from Seedtime on the Cumberland	40
	The First Ride	42
	Neighbors	49
	When Grandmother Wept	49
	Cicada's Song	50
	Someday in a Wood	51
	The Stair	51
	Women Die Like Trees	54
	When Earth Becomes an "It"	54
	Anorexia Bulimia Speaks from the Grave	55
	A Time to Reweave, from Selu	56
	A Time to Study Law, from Selu	57
	Out of Ashes Peace Will Rise	61
	Belinda, Our Tremendous Gift	64
	from Behind the Blue Ridge	71
	from Sara Will	74
	from Dorie: Woman of the Mountains	79
	Wildwood Flower	83
	Bittersweet	84
	Lineage	84
	Easter	86
	Mountain Time	87
	from Sing for Freedom	91
	40, from Stories I Ain't Told Nobody Yet	97
	49, from Stories I Ain't Told Nobody Yet	98
	from Maybe, The Last of the 'Waltz Across Texas' and Other Stories	99
	from Daytrips	102
	from My Appalachia	108
	Second Christmas	114
	Spending the Night	114
	Discipline	115
	The Glad Gardener	116
	from Wilder	119
	The Boy	124
	Hospitality	125
	The Widow Man	125
	Kivers	126
	In Envy of Migration	130
	Maps	131
	About the Pelvis	133
	Tick	134
	The Hillbilly Vampire	138
	The Vampire Ethnographer	139
	No Minority	140
	Homer-Snake, from Sweet Hollow	143
	Sister	150
	Sports Widow	151
	from Call Home the Heart	154
	Country	158
	for Dr. Josefina Garcia & the "Tissue Committee"	159
	zora neale	161
	from Life in the Iron Mills	164
	Giving the Sun	170
	The Hole	170
	Twins	171
	Poetics South	172
	In a Time of Drought	173
	Broadside	173
	from Praise House	176
	from Pilgrim at Tinker Creek	181
	This is what history is	185
	A woman is segmented as an ant	185
	Every open space fills with sky	186
	Appalachia	190
	Elegy For Jody	191
	from Fiddling His Way to Fame, The Heart of Old Hickory	194
	from Return the Innocent Earth	199
	from The French Broad	204
	from The Durket Sperret	210
	from More than Moonshine	215
	Granny Brock	217
	Mountains Fill Up the Night	218
	Appalachia, Where are your Hills?	219
	from Queen Ida's Hair-Doing House of Waves, Heartwood	222
	Irons At Her Feet	225
	from Sight to the Blind	229
	from Storming Heaven	234
	from The Unquiet Earth	236
	from Hannah Fowler	242
	Griots, from Racism 101	247
	Knoxville, Tennessee	249
	Revolutionary Dreams	250
	A Poem Off Center	250
	from A Southern Family	254
	from The War at Home	259
	from M. C. Higgins the Great	264
	Writing Lessons (I.)	269
	She	270
	Writing Lessons (II.)	271
	To her mother, lying in state	272
	from A Circuit Rider's Wife	276
	from The Hawk's Done Gone	279
	from Past Titan Rock	284
	Ms. Ida Mae, from Tough Customers and Other Stories	289
	from My Great-Aunt Arizona	294
	Momma's Letter	299
	The Last Unmined Vein	300
	from The Long Roll	305
	from The Autobiography of Mother Jones	309
	Life and Art in East Tennessee	312
	Hooked Album Quilt, 1870	313
	Weather Rhymes	317
	from Weeds	321
	from No Place Like Home	325
	The Familiar Level	327
	Refusing a Spinal	328
	from The Bean Trees	332
	from Prodigal Summer	336
	from Extended Learning, Farlanburg Stories	340
	from Some Days There's Pie	348
	from Coon Creek Girl	355
	from To Make My Bread	360
	from With A Hammer for My Heart	366
	Where I'm From	370
	Rings	371
	Salvation	372
	Growing Light	373
	Mulberries	376
	To My Daughter Going Off to College	377
	Welcome to the Other Side	379
	Good Luck Charm	380
	from Christy	383
	The Gifts of the Spirit	388
	Rain	392
	Saved	393
	Ascension	394
	from The McCoys	397
	from The Songcatcher	402
	from Up the Hill toward Home	409
	from Mother of the Disappeared: An Appalachian Birth Mother's Journey	415
	Many Waters	421
	For My Grandmother Who Knows How	423
	The Hollow	424
	Mother Milking	425
	Music	426
	Twilight in West Virginia: Six O'Clock Mine Report	430
	Deep Mining	431
	Sunday Morning, 1950	432
	The Only Portrait of Emily Dickinson	433
	Visiting My Gravesite: Talbott Churchyard, West Virginia	434
	The Other Woman	437
	Aubade to Fear (Heavy with Child)	437
	Hill Daughter	438
	Arrow Grasses by Greenbrier River	439
	from The Milkweed Ladies	440
	Lanterns and Lamps	443
	First Plowing in the Hills	444
	from The Spirit of the Mountains	447
	from The Edge of the Woods	451
	Seventh Grades	453
	Breadstuff	454
	All Those Nights	456
	Under The Earth	457
	The Way Back	458
	Story is a Women	461
	Solidarity in the Night	462
	Ahlawe Usv' Tsigesvgi	463
	Rumors, from Red Woman With Backward Eyes	464
	from In the Tennessee Mountains	470
	Briers, from Brier Country: Stories from the Blue Valley	474
	from Machine Dreams	480
	from Motherkind	484
	Nativity	489
	Echocardiogram	490
	The Calling	492
	In the Kitchen We String Beans	496
	Clarissa and the Second Coming	497
	When You Lose a Child	498
	Snake Dreams	500
	July 18, 1966	503
	Woman Writer	504
	I Used To Be A Teacup	505
	Discovered	506
	How Do You Remember Him?	507
	from Singing Family of the Cumberlands	510
	from The Time of Man	515
	from Sketches of History, Life, and Manners, in the United States	519
	from Missing May	523
	Pink	528
	Mornings, Sheba Combs Her Hair	529
	Liza's Monday	530
	The Morning of the Red-Tailed Hawk	531
	All On A Summer's Afternoon	532
	Legacy For Rachel	533
	from Addie	536
	from The Killing Ground	539
	Why I Write	545
	Fat Sestina	546
	Spellcheck	548
	from Cabins in the Laurel	551
	Appalachian Winter	556
	from Our Mountain	562
	Homecoming	567
	Kathy	567
	My Father. His Rabbits	568
	Backwoods Haiku	569
	from What My Heart Wants to Tell	572
	Bad News	576
	And This Is The Way To Be Poor	577
	The Language of Poetry	578
	Memories of Home	581
	from Saving Grace	585
	Cycles from Transparencies	593
	Where Stuarts Lie	594
	Roots	594
	Composition	595
	from Big Stone Gap	598
	Economy	603
	New Poor	603
	A Dry Spring	604
	Our Bodies Remember	605
	Force	607
	from Shadow of the Mountain	610
	My Boy Elroy, from In the Mountains of America	615
	from The Raising, From the Bottom Up	625
	from The Morning Cool	630